The
Big PictureGetting Perspective
on What's Really Important in Life

Author:
Ben Carson

Zondervan Publishing House, March 1999

Ben Carson, neurosurgeon

I have not yet read this
book. I saw David Gergen interview Carson on the Lehrer NewsHour. In the
fifth grade Carson had been a do-nothing student, considered to be
a dummy by his classmates. As described in his 1992 book Think
Big, his hardworking, illiterate mother restricted her two boys to
two pre-selected television programs each week. She had them read two books
from the public library each week and submit book reports to her, Ben
Carson not knowing that his mother could not read. Reading opened a new
world for Carson and stimulated his imagination. From a do nothing student
he went to the top of his class. By his early thirties he was a leading
brain surgeon.